Two Plays by Denis Diderot : The Illegitimate Son and The Father of the Family Translated with an Introduction by Kiki Gounaridou and John Hellweg.
Title:
Two Plays by Denis Diderot : The Illegitimate Son and The Father of the Family Translated with an Introduction by Kiki Gounaridou and John Hellweg.
Author:
Diderot, Denis.
ISBN:
9781453901632
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (188 pages)
Series:
Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures ; v.188
Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments ix -- Introduction: Denis Diderot's Dramatic Suburbia (by Kiki Gounaridou and John Hellweg) 1 -- Denis Diderot's The Illegitimate Son (translated by Kiki Gounaridou) 7 -- Denis Diderot's The Father of the Family (translated by John Hellweg) 55.
Abstract:
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was one of the French philosophers and writers of the Enlightenment. This volume contains the first English translations of his plays, The Illegitimate Son and The Father of the Family. These complex and very entertaining plays delve into the attitudes of the middle-class, bourgeois society and reveal an eighteenth-century suburbia that populates dramatic and suspenseful situations and settings. The translations are vivid and contemporary and bring the plays alive to early twenty-first-century stage and culture.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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